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- set0
The yearly death toll from flu, in the US, is 36,000, and no one blinks or trembles. Not a problem. Why? Because no one in charge said: “epidemic.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that, globally, there are between 3 and 5 million cases of ordinary flu every year, and between 250,000 and 500,000 people die. Ho-hum. Pass the salt. Again, no one says “epidemic.”
But in the spring of 2009, with just 20 cases of Swine Flu, WHO declared a level-6 pandemic, its highest danger category. And people started buying bottled water and canned goods.
Of course, to make that pronouncement, WHO had to change its definition of pandemic. Widespread death and severe debilitation were no longer required.
If Ebola really was as big a problem as the media would have you believe, they would have shut down air travel from Sierra Leone. They didn't.
People in Africa and Sierra Leone are continually reported to not believe Ebola exists. There are many reports of people getting symptoms only after being given vaccines and a man was caught by a mob putting formaldehyde into the water supply of their village. When caught he said that he was paid to do it.... formaldehyde when consumed in water causes similar symptoms to the reported Ebola symptoms.
This is nothing but a fear campaign in order for big pharma to make billions on vaccines and possibly to bring martial law into the states.
They practiced martial law in Boston after the bombings, which the people almost welcomed after the mainstream media pumped enough fear into them. The whole city was locked down because of one man who killed literally a couple of people, yet because the whole thing was drummed up so utterly dramatically by the media people bought into it. It was bonkers.
Ebola is not a threat but the people saying it is are.
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- inteliboy0
Media panic is always over the top.
Though there are very real reasons why H5N1 or swine flu or Ebola are considered as serious threats - and treated as such. And it's a job damn well done if statistically these viruses sit in a low bracket of deaths per year.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
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- maquito0
Ebola has so far killed more than 4000 people in seven countries since the beginning of the year, but it’s not only the speed with which the virus spreads and kills that is terrifying. It’s the gruesome, undignified way it ends some victims’ lives – painfully, with uncontrolled vomiting, diarrhoea, and bleeding to death from all orifices, through the skin, from the inside out.
- maquito0
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
Outbreak will not be broadcasted.
- maquito0
Some qbners may know that I work in a healthcare communications agency, been there for 5+years. Said, I'm pretty acquianted to health related news and media. I must say: I am scared about the protocols and the lack of ethics around this whole issue, than the virus itself.
- maquito0
http://www.scientificamerican.co…
If I may, it's pretty much the procedures, not the virus of this flu which makes it divert to a nightmare.
- monkeyshine0
I read somewhere that Ebola isn't as contagious as HIV but as I listen to NPR talk about how easily one can become exposed by removing their space suit, it sure sounds more contagious to me.
...plus, our dogs can also contract it? Wut? :(
- i_monk0
Two cases in Ontario, Ottawa and Belleville.
- pinkfloyd0
^^Ebola lives on the surface for hours, where as the HIV virus dies soon after being in contact with air. HIV requires exchange of bodily fluids, and it doesn't even always transmit that way. Where as ebola, people are wearing all these gears and being protective and still catching it.
- mg330
The thing about comparing ebola to the flu is that even with those death figures for the flu, it still doesn't have anywhere near the mortality rate of ebola. I did some math on this earlier, and in just the US the mortality rate of the flu was not even 1% of the people who get it. It was .06%. Think about that:
The average yearly flu deaths from 2000 - 2010 is estimated at 32,743 deaths.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/…They also say that between 5% and 20% of the US population gets the flu each year.
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-fl…Let's just go with 10%. That's 31,600,000 people in the US that get the flu each year. And approximate deaths is 32,000.
That's 1.03% that get the flu and die from it.
Now look at ebola. It can have up to a 90% mortality rate, and there's no cure. Let's be conservative and say it has a 45% mortality rate. If there were truly an epidemic, and even 70,000 people get it, that mortality rate kills the same amount of people as the flu scenario above. If, God forbid, it went into astronomical numbers and 31,600,000 people got ebola, it could kill 14 million people.
I realize that this is hypothetical, but it should show the vast difference between mortality rates of something like the flu and ebola. I have faith that we will prevent a massive epidemic in the US, but just imagine if it got out of control.
And before you criticize me about this post, all I'm doing is trying to illustrate that saying that 32,000 people die of the flu without us batting an eye at it might be the case because it's such a small percentage that die of the people who get it. If lots of people get ebola, the deaths are going to be far more comparatively than the flu.
- Disregard my first percentage on flu. the 1.03 is what I calculated after thinking about this a bit.mg33
- You do know that in Africa malaria has a 54% mortality rate. And is transmitted easier.ETM
- And still only kills 627 000 people.ETM
- But if 31,600,000 got malaria, it could kill 17,064,000.ETM
- The media blows this up every time. Sars, H1N1. Without the media, you'd never know ebola exists.ETM
- At least, not until it became an actual issue outside the geographic hot zone.ETM
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- iCanHazQBN0
Fuck, I just got ebola. Now I won't know what the iPhone 7 will look like.
- ETM0
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What a bullshit site. The so-called quotes on the page don't exist in any form, within the articles it claims to reference. LOL
- GeorgesII0
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